The man at the helm of the current effort to reshape America's health care system repeatedly criticized the process through which Obamacare was passed.

In 2010, current Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said: "Democrats on Capitol Hill are working behind the scenes on a plan aimed at jamming this massive health spending bill through Congress against the clear wishes of an unsuspecting public."

Trump's Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price, then representing Georgia's 6th Congressional District, said Democrats were "sacrificing the trust of the American people."

With Democrats discussing health care in secret, they're sacrificing the trust of the American people.

Then-House Speaker John Boehner gave an impassioned speech on the House floor during the debate, saying in part, "Look at how this bill was written. Can you say it was done openly? With transparency and accountability? Without backroom deals struck behind closed doors, hidden from the people?"

His response: "Hell no, you can't."

He asked the House if they had read the bill.

His response: "Hell no, you haven't."

"If you rush this thing through before anybody even knows what it is, that's not good democracy," Boehner's successor, Paul Ryan, said in 2009.

Linda McMahon, who leads the Trump administration's US Small Business Administration, said in January 2010 that American health care was too "important" to be done behind closed doors.

"Ramming through a partisan bill" is like "going to war with out asking Congress's permission," Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tennessee, told "Fox News Sunday" in 2009. "You might technically be able to do it, but you'd pay a terrible price in the next election."

In a 2010 opinion column, Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, criticized Democrats' use of reconciliation, a budget maneuver to pass a bill in the Senate using 51 votes instead of the 60 needed to break a filibuster. He spoke gravely about the effects of passing a health care bill through that process.

"The havoc wrought would threaten our system of checks and balances, corrode the legislative process, degrade our system of government and damage the prospects of bipartisanship," Hatch said.

Sen. John McCain went further Tuesday, agreeing with many Democrats that the secrecy encompassing the Republican plan is hypocritical. Asked by CNN's Manu Raju if he was satisfied by the current process, McCain said no.

"We used to complain like hell when the Democrats ran the Affordable Care Act," he said. "Now, we're doing the same thing."

CORRECTION: This story has been updated to reflect that Pence served in Congress in 2010.